Susanna lives in St. Paul, MN with her husband and children. She spends her time going to beautiful liturgies, cooking, reading, home schooling her children, and writing all about it at her blog.
Marriages in great literature are usually quite tumultuous. Just look at any Shakespeare tragedy or a novel by a Bronte sister or Graham Greene and there is absolutely no one to emulate in marriage. Who wants to be like the Macbeths in their murderous ways or Mr. Rochester with a...
A lot of things change when you have your first baby, including your experience of going to church. For the most part babies are easy to soothe and you will be able to pray during Mass. Then one day your sweet, easy to soothe baby at church turns into a...
1) You prefer to go to the Traditional Latin Mass, but you don’t fit in with all of those Mainstream Traditionalists. You are even okay with attending the Ordinary Form in a pinch. 2) You celebrate saints’ feasts no one has never heard of, like the Seven Sleepers of...
All this pain I wonder if I’ll ever find my way I wonder if my life could really change at all All this earth Could all that is lost ever be found Could a garden come up from this ground at all (From the song Beautiful Things, by Gungor)...
I can guarantee these songs will do more to spiritually prepare you for Christmas than secular songs about shopping.
While a lot of people start listening to Christmas music as soon as Advent begins, there are others who prefer to wait to listen to it until the actual Christmas season begins. Growing up my family never listened until we put the tree up on the Fourth Sunday of Advent...
